Your project over the weekend is to create a menu! You will be using this menu in class on Tuesday and Wednesday. ____________________________________________________________

Pretend you are writing the menu for a restaurant that serves breakfast and lunch. You want to sell as much food and drinks as possible for the restaurant, so make your menu readable and attractive. All text on the menu needs to be in Spanish.

Your menu must include:

A section for breakfast

A section for lunch

Images of the foods that are available, grouped under the appropriate section [You should have 5 - 8 food options and 3 drink optionsfor each section. You can draw the images, print them from the internet, or cut them out of advertisements from the grocery store or for restaurants.]

The Spanish name for the food or drink shown in each image

For each section, two recommended meal combinations (Use complete sentences!):

A small meal

A large meal and drink

Remember, you're trying to sell these meals -- do so by telling your customers how much you like these foods!! This means you should be using A mí me gusta(n) to sell the small meals, and a mí me encanta(n) to describe the large meals. You might also write a sentence to say that you prefer the large meal.

You might also include 1 or 2 items you would not recommend (Use the vocab we have learned: you could write that you don't eat those items, that you don't like those items, or that you prefer something else.)

First, you can always go to the website for the textbook, www.phschool.com, and complete one of the exercises for our current chapter. I will accept exercises for Capítulo 2B or 3A. Just use the code provided in your text on one of those pagesm and it will take you to the right place on the site. Each exercise is worth a small amout of points, it depends which one you do. You need to bring proof of your work -- either print it out and complete it, or write it by hand.

Second, I have a fairly simple assignment for you -- but one that will test your skills. I want you to be exposed to hearing Spanish, and practice listening and writing, so the assignment is to watch 30 minutes or more of Spanish-language television, and complete the following:

Pretend you are in a Spanish-speaking country, and that the actors on TV could turn and talk to you at any moment. You need to understand what they are saying!! Write down anything you understand. If it's not a complete sentence that can be understood without any further explanation, then you also need to write in any clues from context (overall situation, facial expressions, body language, enough words in the sentence to make a guess, etc.) that you could use to help you undertsand what they are talking about.

On your paper, you must have:1. Your name2. The date you watched TV on3. The time you started and stopped (Minimum 30 minutes)4. The name of the program you watched5. The written segment must be either 1 page, front and back, OR 25 separate statements, whichever comes first. If you don't have that much written down at the end of 30 minutes, keep watching until you do (you can do it in more than one sitting).

A great way to fill this out is to watch the commercials. They're quick, designed to be memorable, and are often simpler to understand than the TV programs. Another easy way to do this is to watch the news -- they show lots of relevant pictures, they have text underneath that explains the overall situation, and it is aimed at a sixth grade language level. Often the news and commercials are easier to understand than the complicated stories that happen in many TV shows, which often just involve people talking with no clues about what they are talking about.

Here are two examples of things you could write:Example 1, a complete sentence: "Ellos están hablando con los amigos en frente de la casa."If you heard someone say this, and you wrote it down, no further explanation would be needed.

Example 2, a partial sentence with some context clues:What they actually say on TV might be something like 'Yo hablaba contigo a diario sobre este asunto, pero tú nunca me oía." It's fine if you don't understand it all, just guess at the spelling and the sounds, and write a sentence after ward, like this:"Yo habla(?) ... pero tú nunca me... (something)." A woman said this to a man, and she was angry. Then she ran out of the room crying, and he looked guilty and sad. I think maybe she was accusing him of something.

If you have questions about how to complete this, email me. I will be away from my email until the 26th, but will happily call or email you back.

Tonight's homework is Workbook page 2B-5 (page 44 in the workbook). I apologize for not getting this posted sooner -- I just got back from my evening class at CSUN. It's final exam time for me, so please bear with me as I may have some delays in keeping up with the website.

Also, so you have it to refer to, here is the PowerPoint about the verb estar that we looked at in class.

As discussed in class, you will need to refer to the textbook for help with tonight's homework (pages 100 - 101). I have scanned and uploaded the workbook pages (see below), so you can print them out or simply write your answers on a separate page.